Thursday, 17 October 2013
Screen Australia has allocated $643,125 in funding to support the development of 18 new feature films, including film adaptations of books by Peter Carey, Melanie Joosten, Susan Duncan and Megan Abbott. Part...

Wednesday, 16 October 2013
Jennifer Compton has won the 2013 Newcastle Poetry Prize for her poem ‘Now You Shall Know’. Compton was presented with the award, which is worth $12,000, at a ceremony in...

Wednesday, 16 October 2013
A number of Australian literary organisations and awards, including the Miles Franklin Literary Award and Melbourne’s Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas, have been named in a poll of...

Wednesday, 16 October 2013
New Zealand author Eleanor Catton has won the 2013 Man Booker Prize for The Luminaries (Granta), with an award worth £50,000 (A$84,000) presented at London’s Guildhall on 15 October. Catton is the second...

Wednesday, 16 October 2013
The Queensland Writers Centre (QWC) and Hachette Australia have announced the writers that have been selected to attend this year’s Manuscript Development Program. The eight writers selected for the program...

Wednesday, 16 October 2013
Former literary agent Mary Cunnane has launched a new editing and publishing consultancy business. Cunnane, who announced the closure of The Mary Cunnane Agency in August, will offer ‘editorial services...

Wednesday, 16 October 2013
‘I am very aware of the pressures upon contemporary publishing to make money and to remain competitive in a competitive world, and I know that it is no small thing...

Tuesday, 15 October 2013
The shortlist for the 2013 Overland Victoria University Short Story Prize for New and Emerging Writers has been announced.  The shortlisted stories are: ‘Dubbing Blows Cold’ (Liam Copland) ‘The Job’ (Robyn...

Monday, 14 October 2013
Former managing director of Hachette New Zealand Kevin Chapman has launched a new publishing business called Upstart Press. Chapman, who left Hachette earlier this year following a major restructure of...

Monday, 14 October 2013
There are no changes at the top of the bestseller chart this week, with Jamie Oliver’s Save with Jamie (Michael Joseph) and Andy Griffiths’ The 39-Storey Treehouse (Pan) retaining the top two...

Thursday, 10 October 2013
Six Western Australian children’s authors and illustrators have been selected to attend the 2014 Asian Festival of Children’s Content (AFCC) in Singapore as part of writingWA’s cultural exchange program with...

Wednesday, 9 October 2013
Walker Books has appointed a new sales team to manage all international sales of Walker Books UK, Candlewick Press and Walker Books Australia titles, reports the Bookseller. As part of...

Wednesday, 9 October 2013
Brisbane-based literary agency Alex Adsett Publishing Services (AAPS) has announced details of its first deals with Australian publishers. AAPS, which was established as a literary agency by publishing consultant Alex Adsett...

Wednesday, 9 October 2013
The shortlist for this year’s Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing has been announced. The shortlisted pieces of writing are: ‘The Last Laughing Death’ by Jo Chandler (The Global...

Wednesday, 9 October 2013
‘We have printed over 50,000 of the two editions as a first print, [and] we expect to be pushing the reprint button several times’—Pan Macmillan publishing director Cate Paterson speaks...

Tuesday, 8 October 2013
The Monthly has selected books by Michelle de Kretser, J M Coetzee and Alexis Wright as the best in literature in 2013 for its annual Arts Issue, published this month....

Tuesday, 8 October 2013
Sales Fiction—Alex Adsett Publishing Services has signed a two book deal with Simon & Schuster for Chasing The Ace and Running The Red (Nicholas Johnson); has signed a three book...

Tuesday, 8 October 2013
Author Tom Clancy has died, aged 66. Clancy was the author of numerous novels including The Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games, The Cardinal of the Kremlin, Clear and Present...

Monday, 7 October 2013
For the third consecutive week Jamie Oliver’s Save with Jamie (Michael Joseph) and Andy Griffiths’ The 39-Storey Treehouse (Pan) are first and second respectively on the bestsellers chart. They are followed...

Friday, 4 October 2013
New Zealand author Eleanor Catton has been shortlisted for the 2013 Governor General’s Literary Award for fiction (English language) in Canada. Catton, who was born in Canada, is shortlisted for...